Despite being someone who's had several "do-overs", or "start-overs" in my life, I agree with the author's proposition. I hope I'm allowed to like both Proust a

Despite being someone who's had several "do-overs", or "start-overs" in my life, I agree with the author's proposition. I hope I'm allowed to like both Proust and Amis, though! To take the point a little bit further, the number (and value) of the chances (even first ones) anyone gets directly correlate with the social class into which they are born. (There are exceptions, at both ends of the distribution, but it's still generally true.) Choose your parents wisely!